Mingyu Wei

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SCShuguang Chen
Shuguang Chen
MWMingyu Wei
Mingyu Wei
LZLihua Zhang
Lihua Zhang
YFYan Fang
Yan Fang
YWYesong Wang
Yesong Wang
YPYongsheng Pei
Yongsheng Pei
Underwater quadrotor vehicles operating in complex nearshore environments face challenges in three-dimensional path planning, obstacle-triggered replanning, and trajectory tracking under external disturbances. To address these issues, this paper evaluates an enhanced rapidly exploring random tree (iRRT) planner and a model predictive control–proportional–integral–derivative (MPC–PID) tracking strategy with residual disturbance estimation. The planner combines guided sampling, environment-aware adaptive extension, collision-checked reverse greedy pruning, and cubic B-spline smoothing. A bisection-based handoff reconnects the remaining safe path after a newly introduced obstacle; post-solution informed sampling is examined separately as an ablation. The tracking controller is evaluated on a nonlinear six-degree-of-freedom vehicle model under a seeded, wave-shaped disturbance proxy. In 30 runs on the original voxel map, both RRT and iRRT produced safe paths in the static and fixed-obstacle replanning cases under the same additional radius-two voxel-neighborhood test. Relative to RRT, iRRT reduced the mean number of raw path nodes by 37.4% in the static case and 12.8% after replanning, whereas its small mean path-length differences were not conclusive. Under matched paths and disturbance phases, adding residual estimation to MPC–PID reduced mean position RMSE by 12.1% on the static path and 9.7% on the replanned path. Component ablations and additional synthetic maps further examine the contributions and limits of the planning modules. These results support the proposed integration under the stated numerical assumptions; measured hydrodynamics and vehicle experiments remain to be investigated.